So where I left off was at Amboise. About a five minute walk down the street from the chateau is the house where Leonardo Da Vinci lived for the last three years of his life. It was pretty cool walking through someplace where he lived and worked. Basically the king at the time liked Da Vinci so much that he invited him to live at Clos-Luce so that he could just chat and rest in peace. There is even an underground passage way from Clos-Luce to Amboise. Pretty cool? Jess really wanted to hop the rope closing it off and adventure through. Outside of the house there is a whole park with different things dedicated to Da Vinci's life and work. I have to admit, when we were walked around, some of us were starting to get a bit silly because it was hot and we'd been walking all day. So we probably didn't absorb as much about everything around us as we could have. We learned that ducks like lemon cake though!
Zach is 6ft tall and he barely fit through the door. French people are small!
His study
In the basement there was a whole exhibit on his inventions are the different things that he worked on over the course of his life. There was also a whole thing outside on his use of light in his painting.
Here you could take a Da Vinci style drawing class.
After Clos-Luce, we caught the train back home. That weekend there was a wine festival in town. You paid 5 euros for a glass and then could try all the wine that you wanted. There were over 100 different tents. Around 9 it started raining so we decided that we had had enough and went to MAO, a thai restaurant close to the festival. Below are my and Morgan's dinners. Their noodles were to die for. After dinner we were walking home and ran into a concert going on. It was part of the festival and the guys playing were playing in time with the fireworks that were going off. They deffinitely were shooting fireworks of in front of town hall, in the middle of the street, in the center of town. That would never happen in the US!
Morgan, Lara and I
My dinner
Morgan's dinner
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